Monthly Archives: March 2022

The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Luke Ford

Cambridge sociologist Patrick Baert writes in this 2015 book: * There is fourthly the authenticity bias. We are referring to those studies of intellectuals that assume that intellectuals have a clear sense of their identity and values, with these self-notions … Continue reading →

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Intellectuals and their Publics: Perspectives from the Social Sciences

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Luke Ford

Professor Jeffrey Alexander, a sociologist at Yale, writes in this 2012 book: * Being a public intellectual, in other words, is not just a matter of telling the truth and of being separate and free-floating and truly representing the universal. … Continue reading →

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How Did Russia Vs Ukraine Become A Battle Of Good & Evil? (3-31-22)

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Luke Ford

00:00 Impurity and Torah, https://www.lukeford.net/essays/impurity_torah_HIV.html 01:00 This week’s Torah portion, https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/1545/jewish/Tazria-in-a-Nutshell.htm 03:00 Porndemic, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porndemic 20:00 Jeffrey Alexander on “The Double Whammy Trauma”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRALGmAmKoQ 1:01:20 Kino Casino vs Nick Fuentes, Ethan Ralph, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YxhSFkh0lo 1:37:00 Conflict in the Academy: A Study in … Continue reading →

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Watergate As Democratic Ritual

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Luke Ford

Professor Jeffrey Alexander writes in his 2003 book, The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology: * In June 1972, employees of the Republican party made an illegal entry and burglary into the Democratic party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel … Continue reading →

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Public Intellectuals in the Global Arena: Professors or Pundits?

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2016 book. Patrick Baert writes: * My underlying thread is that intellectuals, including public intellectuals, are constantly involved in various forms of positioning and, crucially, that new societal conditions encourage novel forms of positioning … Continue reading →

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